Telangana to establish skill universities, centres for youth: Minister Sridhar Babu

Hyderabad: IT minister D. Sridhar Babu said that the state government was coming up with an action plan to establish skill centres in every district and a skill university in each of the ten erstwhile districts to impart job skills to students to make them more employable.

He said that the government would shortly issue job notifications to fill two lakh vacancies in government departments besides making efforts to create lakhs of jobs in the private sector by encouraging investments in IT, ITes, industries and allied sectors.

Sridhar Babu informed that a special course on artificial intelligence (AI) would be introduced at the under-graduate level. Appealing to the youth to evolve a positive attitude, the minister announced that job melas would be conducted in all district headquarters on a regular basis.

"Skill universities will be established for facilitating the launch of new industries, besides ensuring requisite skilled manpower for the units. Telangana will be leading in skilled manpower in the next five years," he said.

sridhar Babu was speaking after launching 'job mela' in the office of the director and commissioner (youth services) commemorating the National Youth Day here on Friday.

He paid floral tributes to Swami Vivekananda on the occasion of his birth anniversary.

The state government would take effective measures to curb drug menace and help youth, particularly in rural areas, to have a bright future, he said.